单词 | genevese |
释义 | Genevesen.adj. A. n. A native of Geneva. Cf. Genevan n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Swiss > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Switzerland > parts of Rhaetian1555 Genevese1650 Allobroges1652 Genevois1673 Zuricher1673 Bernois1687 Valaisan1776 Bernese1806 Valaisian1863 Ticinese1961 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico vi. 26 In their passage..over the Mountaines; on the one side by the French, on the other by the Geneveses [L. Geneuatibus] and Swisse, they might easily be distressed and cut off. 1697 D. Jones Secret Hist. White-Hall xliv. 81 This Genevese being thus re-established in the Favour of the Prince. 1740 M. D. tr. Marquis d'Argens Jewish Spy II. lxviii. 212 A Day may come, perhaps, when the Genevese will repent their having deck'd and trimm'd their City like a new Bride. 1794 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XII. 489 The picture drawn in them, of the Genevese, is really interesting and affecting. 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. i. 39 I am by birth a Genevese. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 260 A neat Protestant church, erected by..the Genevese. 1836 J. F. Cooper Sketches Switzerland: Pt. 2nd II. xxi. 124 The Geneveses are French in their language, in their literature, and consequently in many of their notions. 1881 A. Gray Lett. (1893) 719 All these Genevese speak English well, except Madame de Candolle. 1933 B. Faÿ Two Franklins i. iii. 27 Now the little Genevese worked around warm stoves, helped in their tasks by the purring of the fire. 1995 D. C. Steinmetz Calvin in Context i. 11 While the Genevese were jealous of their political independence, they nevertheless voted on May 25, 1536, to accept the Reformation. B. adj. 1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of Geneva. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Swiss > [adjective] > parts of Genevese1789 Bernese1816 Valaisian1917 Ticinese1964 Genevois1968 Valaisan1970 1789 G. Campbell in tr. Four Gospels I. x. v. 495 But there are, unquestionably, cases in which the Genevese interpreters employ the pronoun unnecessarily, awkwardly, and even improperly. 1816 Christian Observer Sept. 608/2 MM. Geyser..have exhibited to the Genevese Society for the Advancement of the Arts, a wheel which seems to turn of itself. a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xix. 67 I have one object before me now—to get that Genevese girl for my wife. 1875 J. R. Lowell Wordsworth in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 409 The Genevese humorist, Toepffer. 1927 Isis 9 3 The term evolution was introduced by the great Genevese naturalist Charles Bonnet. 1962 E. J. Lovell Capt. Medwin v. 165 Byron's Genevese banker..wrote to Medwin. 2003 R. Giddings in I. Mackillop & N. Sinyard Brit. Cinema of 1950s 169 Dickens had been an eye–witness of the Genevese revolution in 1846. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [adjective] > specific sauces Périgueux1824 Genevoise1829 bigarade1833 Genevese1845 poblano1927 peri-peri1959 marinara1969 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (ed. 2) iv. 108 Genevese Sauce, Or Sauce Genevoise. 1894 Newcastle Weekly Courant 10 Mar. 5/3 As for the sauce called Sauce Bordelaise, it is a variety of Genevese sauce, and got its name probably from the Bordeaux wine in it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1650 |
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